Relacion historiada de las exequias funerales de la magestad del rey D. Philippo II. nuestro senor. : Hechas por el tribunal del Sancto Officio de la Inquisicion desta Nueua España y sus prouincias, y yslas Philippinas;

by: Ribera Flórez, Dionisio de; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RPJCB

Publication date: 1600

Topics: Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598, Memorial rites and ceremonies, Inquisition, Sermons, Imprint 1600

Publisher: En Mexico : En casa de Pedro Balli

Collection: jcbmexicoincunables; jcbspanishamerica; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: John Carter Brown Library

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Spanish

From the t.p.: Donde trata de las virtudes esclarecidas de su Magestad, y transito felicissimo: declarando las figuras, letras, hierogliphicos, empresas, y diuisas, que en el Tumulo se pusieron, como persona que lo adorno y compuso, con la inuencio[n] y traça del apparato sumptuoso con que se vistio desde su planta hasta su fenecimie[n]to

Errors in foliation, leaf 186 numbered 180

Signatures: [par.]-2[par.] A-Z 2A (-2A4) 2B (-2B4) chi² (chi2 verso blank)

The text is a mixture of sermons, laudatory poetry, epigrams, etc.; side notes in Latin with reference to the Scriptures. Medina, Mexico, refers to it as one of the most interesting texts printed in 16th cent. Mexico

Colophon on leaf 187 verso: Con licencia. En Mexico En casa de Pedro Balli. 1600

Woodcut coat of arms of the Inquisidor Alonso de Peralta on t.p. verso, historiated and ornamental initials

Errata on leaves chi1-chi2 at end

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Medina, J.T. México

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.)

Sabin

Leaf 187 (2A3?) misbound at end of volume; catch word on leaf [186] verso (missigned 180), matches the first word on 187 recto. Leaves for signatures 2A and 2B are not signed in a sequence that corresponds with a logical continuation of the text

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolás León : bookplate